150 Quotes by Golda Meir

We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.

This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.

We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.

Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.

... from Russia I didn't bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror ...

...I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.

the modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don't fill up my life?

Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.